Close to the midseason mark, Broadway has been parched for laughs.
Well, the drought is over. A comic geyser is flooding the Plymouth
Theater with hilarity. Two British zanies, Peter Cook and Dudley
Moore, have released it, and these men are stark-raving bonkers.
Cook, the tall one, has the imperturbable aplomb of a tightly furled
umbrella.
Moore, the short one, scurries round like a libidinous opossum.
Employing literate wit and razor-edged satire, the pair take off on the
Nativity, a homosexual Othello, Germaine Greer's theories on Women's
Lib and the perils...